My company's diversity team has set up a women's support/networking/empowerment group, which I think is A Good Thing. I've just come away from the launch, though, feeling rather disappointed.
Disappointing Thing 1: The senior exec they've chosen to sponsor the group is a man. We have a pretty good number of female senior execs. No idea why they did this.
Disappointing Thing 2: Said man gave a speech in which he a) talked about 'man management', b) said he thought the main thing holding women back was confidence, and c) said he thought our company culture was conducive to women doing well, unlike the culture at his previous company which was 'entrepreneurial and fast-paced'.
Disappointing Thing 3: Many of the women I spoke to afterwards didn't seem to find Disappointing Thing 1 and Disappointing Thing 2 disappointing at all.
I blame you lot for raising my consciousness 